Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A variant of splotch.

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  • noun An irregular-shaped splash or smear (of liquid)
  • verb To make a splodge

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  • noun an irregularly shaped spot

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Examples

  • Melt a decent splodge of butter in a nonstick pan, and then add some minced garlic.

    Snortle snortle karenmiller 2008

  • His being all razdraz had given him some gigantic strength, and Dim and Pete had got out through the window, but Georgie had tripped on the carpet and then brought this terrible swinging iron bar crack and splodge on the gulliver, and that was the end of traitorous Georgie.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • In reality, though that may sound like a good idea to the people who have previously brought us Stéphane Guivarc'h, Jon Dahl Tomasson, Carl Cort and Michael Owen, the fact is Chris Hughton is not the sort of gaffer to splodge a fortune on one big name of dubious current value.

    Football transfer rumours: Raúl to Newcastle United? 2010

  • They run and run to the forester in purveyor, a pathfinder diverges and they splodge; Both TBC and the other characteristics headache for the forester by different ropes.

    Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek) 2010

  • In practice, of course, this results in a little leisure splodge in the midst of massive new housing developments, which are such a money spinners for nulabia, and which inevitably result in the loss of substantial amounts of the peoples 'green space.

    Britain 2008 Newmania 2008

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  • Summer for me is a bowlful of pappa al pomodoro, made using fresh tomatoes and basil; a green minestrone with a splodge of homemade pesto; aubergines baked in the oven with crème fraîche and herbs.

    The Garden Game 2009

  • But, tell me this; what's that flesh-colored splodge on the back of the couch, above his hand with the remote?

    My Dad's Cake is More Insulting Than YOUR Dad's Cake Jen 2009

  • Sam stares at the yellow-white splodge on the glass and squeals, jumping up and down in his pyjamas, dribble trickling down his front.

    Superfoods 2009

  • Summer for me is a bowlful of pappa al pomodoro, made using fresh tomatoes and basil; a green minestrone with a splodge of homemade pesto; aubergines baked in the oven with crème fraîche and herbs.

    The Garden Game 2009

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  • ...wood-smoke and light from a tinker's caravan camped in a sunk lane, hawthorn hedge splodged with drying linen - red green and blue parakeets perched fluttering pierced on white may, and beyond, in the moon, bright red cusp of railway lines gleaming...

    - Peter Reading, About How Many?, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981

    June 29, 2008